HYDROCARBON PRODUCTION CO. v. VALLEY ACRES W. DIST.

No. 14146.

204 F.2d 212 (1953)

HYDROCARBON PRODUCTION CO., Inc. v. VALLEY ACRES WATER DIST. et al.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied May 25, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor W. Bouldin, Houston, Tex., Henry D. Lauderdale, Mercedes, Tex. (Vinson, Elkins & Weems, Houston, Tex., Lauderdale & Bowe, Mercedes, Tex., of counsel), for appellant.

Millard Parkhurst, Dallas, Tex., J. E. Wilkins and C. Y. Mills, Mission, Tex. (Strickland, Wilkins, Hall & Mills, Mission, Tex., McCall, Parkhurst & Crowe, Dallas, Tex., of counsel), for appellees.

Before HOLMES, RUSSELL and STRUM, Circuit Judges.


RUSSELL, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents questions involving the rights of the owner of mineral interests which have been severed from the surface estate in lands in Texas to avoid the imposition of ad valorem taxes upon such mineral estates lying within the confines of an irrigation district which has been created by act of the Texas Legislature acting pursuant to complete authority provided by the State Constitution. At its 1951 session, c. 261, Vernon...

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